DETAILED ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Objections
Claims 2-23 are objected to because of the following informalities:
In claims 2-23, each respectively, line 1 should read in part “[[A]] The pressure-differential engine”. Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 1-23 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the disclosed invention is inoperative and therefore lacks utility; the claimed invention is not supported by either a credible asserted utility or a well-established utility. The instant application claims to create more usable power than it consumes, which is in direct conflict with the first law of thermodynamics, a law of nature. This is the law of conservation of energy, which simply states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. The claimed invention attempts to create energy through perpetual motion using pressure differential and gravitational pull as a source of continuous free clean energy. (See Applicant’s specification, Paragraph [006]). Specifically, the claimed invention of the instant application generates energy from pressure differential forces and gravitational forces without any external driving force, thus violating the first law of thermodynamics and rendering the device inoperable.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Frank, Kusmer, Daya, Tait, Ramsundar, Boyd, Kim, Holmevik, Manoj, Frank’496, and Memis show.
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/MATTHEW T LARGI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3746